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717 Bill Bryson At Home; Pico Iyer In Search of Paradise; Walkable Cities

Travel with Rick Steves

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The Importance of Bike Infrastructure in Europe

Street design determined the safety of streets in Europe. In America engineering standards are all about forgiveness they're all about designing for the drunk at midnight and trying to create a condition in which the fellow or gal will never crash their car. A car traveling 35 is seven times as likely to kill you as a car traveling 25 oh my goodness these factors are huge another interesting issue is bikes and bike infrastructureyou can't just say let's all bike you have to invest in bike infrastructure.

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